How to Choose a Burglar Alarm: Wired or Wireless

The core is the control panel: it receives sensor signals, sounds the siren and sends out alarms. Around it are motion sensors, door and window contacts, glass-break detectors, a panic button for staff, and indoor and outdoor sirens. Control is by fob, keypad, card or app.

Sensors are chosen for the intrusion scenario. A contact catches the door at the moment of forcing, a motion detector covers the whole room, an acoustic sensor reacts to breaking glass before anyone climbs in. Homes with a cat or dog get pet-immune detectors — false alarms turn people off a system faster than anything.

A wireless panel — Hikvision AX PRO, for example — installs in a day with no chasing: sensors on an encrypted radio link run on batteries for years and report low charge themselves. For apartments, finished offices and shops this is the standard choice.

A wired system is laid during construction or renovation: cable in the walls is more robust than radio, sensors need no batteries, and the per-point cost is lower. Large warehouses and factories more often get a hybrid: a wired base plus radio sensors where pulling cable is expensive.

Phone notifications are free and instant: arming, disarming, alarm, low battery. But the phone may be on silent and you may be on a plane. A monitoring company connection adds physical response: a crew rolls out on alarm around the clock, whether you saw the notification or not.

The working scheme for a business is both lines at once: the alarm goes to the owner and to the station. We chain notifications in escalation — push, SMS, call — so an alarm cannot get lost in the night.

An apartment: a wireless panel, contacts on the entrance door and the windows of the first and top floors, a motion detector in the hallway. A shop: plus a panic button at the till and acoustic sensors on the display windows. A warehouse or factory: a hybrid system with a perimeter loop — fence sensors and beam barriers catch the intruder before he reaches the building.

We link the alarm to CCTV: an activation ties to footage, and you see the event before calling security. An apartment takes a day to install, a shop one or two; a warehouse is quoted after a free survey. Equipment from Tashkent stock, warranty and service across Uzbekistan.

A motion detector aimed at a window, a radiator or an air conditioner produces false alarms from sunlight and warm air currents. Magnetic contacts go on every opening leaf, including small vent windows and the rear warehouse door — an intruder takes the quiet way in.

The second common error is a single line of defence. The window perimeter, the volume inside and a contact on the door work together; a lone detector by the entrance is disabled in seconds.